Best Comics Books
Category100 of 175 books24 recommendations totalComics and graphic novels recommended most by creators and critics — literary graphic memoir, superhero epics and manga. Independent series included, each with its source.
A Memoir in Conversations
A "beautiful and eyeopening" (Jacqueline Woodson), "hilarious and heartrending" (Celeste Ng) graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing.NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Chicago Tribune The New York Public Library ...
The Dark Knight Returns Book & Mask Set
This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a nearfuture Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. Crime runs rampan...

Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
"Magnificent! The best howto manual ever published." ? Kevin Kelly, Cool ToolsScott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the...
An Illustrated Memoir
This illustrated memoir is about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family_x0092_s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new liv...

Grime and Punishment
“Available recommendation signals cluster around For, Year, Olds, Children'sHumor, ComicsFiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Volume 1
Charlie, a highlystrung, openly gay overthinker, and Nick, a cheerful, softhearted rugby player, meet at a British allboys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymor...

Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation ...
The Eisner Awardwinning 12issue series from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely is available in Absolute format! The Man of Steel battles Bizarro, Zibarro and more before facing the final revenge of Lex Luthor. Plus: a bonus sketchbook section and more!...
Book One
March is a vivid firsthand account of John Lewis? lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis? personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.Book One spans John Lewis? youth in rural Alab...
A Survivor's Tale
Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon, succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, ...

Writer Mark Waid, coming from his popular work on Flash and Impulse, and artist Alex Ross, who broke new ground with the beautifully painted Marvels, join together for this explosive book that takes place in a dark alternate future of the DC Superhero Universe. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and almost every other character from DC Comics must cho...
Secret Origins
Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral CityAbraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbaliennow lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape! But as they employ all of their...

Elegy New Edition
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Because retailers, readers, and ROBERT KIRKMAN demanded it, the online sensation from PanelSyndicate.com_x0092_s BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS) and MARCOS MARTIN (The Amazing SpiderMan, Doctor Strange: The Oath) is finally coming to print with this gorgeous deluxe hardcover edition, presented in the story_x0092_s original widescreen format!Years after t...
Marie & Pierre Curie
Radioactive is the visual journey into the life of Marie Curie, as told through the dazzling collage style of acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss. A brilliant visual storyteller, Redniss has handdesigned more than 100 color collages to tell Curie?s story, fascinating in its scientific significance and its sometimes whimsical, sometimes haun...

They're ugly. They're mean. But up until today, they've always been loyal. So when one of their own betrays them, COPRA has no choice but to turn their nightmarish skills back on everyone who ever even looked at them...
PRINCE OF CATS is the B side to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, played at an eighties block party in a NY where underground sword dueling blossomed alongside hiphop, punk, disco, and no wave. It's a deconstruction of Romeo and Juliet's romantic meta narrative focussing on the minor players with Tybalt at the center. RONALD WIMBERLY's criticallyac...

Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago_x0092_s south side, the _x0093_Bottomyards_x0094_ is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her imageobsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the wall...
In this graphic novel, a hitman travels back in time tokill Adolf Hitler in 1939... but things go spectacularly wrong....
The Promise
This is the world. It is not the one we wanted, but it is the one we deserved. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the Earth, signaling the End Times for humanity, and our best hope for life, lies in Death.Collecting: East Of West 15...

A New York Times Bestseller!A reality TV show starring a clone of Jesus Christ causes chaos across the U.S. of the near future in PUNK ROCK JESUS, a new graphic novel written and drawn by Sean Murphy, the acclaimed illustrator of JOE THE BARBARIAN and AMERICAN VAMPIRE.J2 causes both outrage and adulation. Religious zealots either love or hate the s...
One Weird Trick
Suzie_x0092_s just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we_x0092_d ALL do: rob a couple banks. A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here!Collecting: Sex Criminals 15...

GRANT MORRISON'S #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe biggest adventure in DC's history is here! Join visionary writer Grant Morrison, today's most talented artists, and a cast of unforgettable heroes from 52 alternative Earths of the DC Multiverse! Prepare to meet the Vampire League of Earth43, the Justice Riders of Earth18, Superdemon, Doc Fate, the...

From the Creator of Dog Man
“Available recommendation signals cluster around For, Year, Olds, Fiction, Humor lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”
The Yellow Emperor to the Han Dynasty (2697 BCE 220 CE) (Understanding China Through Comics (1))
Who founded China Are Chinese people religious What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and more.For all ages, Foundations of Chinese Civilization covers China's early history in comic form, introducing philosophies like Confucianism and Daoi...

The Marvel Universe is no more! The interdimensional Incursions have eliminated each and every alternate universe one by one. And now despite the best eff orts of scientists, sages and superhumans the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe have collided...and been destroyed! All that exists in the vast empty cosmos is a single, titanic patchwork...
The gorgeous and empathetic story of one couple_x0092_s search for hope and a peaceful futureHannah is a thirtysomething wife, homehealth worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stayathome pothead working_x0097_or "working"_x0097_on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck...

Into the SpiderVerse The Art of the Movie
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, bring their unique talents to a fresh vision of a different SpiderMan Universe, with a groundbreaking visual style that?s the first of its kind. SpiderMan: Into the SpiderVerse introduces Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, and the limitless possibilities of ...

Diary of an Unknown Soldier
A graphic adaptation of a 100yearold diary brings World War I history to lifeOne winter morning, Barroux was walking down a street in Paris when he made an extraordinary find: the real diary of a soldier in World War I. Barroux rescued the diary from the trash and illustrated the soldier's words. In this striking black and white graphic novel ad...
Fun in the Land of Manga, Lucky Cats and Ramen
Traveling to Japan has never been so much fun! Visit the land of anime, manga, cosplay, hot springs and sushi!This fullcolor graphic novel Japan guidebook is the first of its kind exploring Japanese culture from a cartoonist's perspective. Cool Japan Guide takes you on a fun tour from the highenergy urban streets of Tokyo to the peaceful Zen gard...

"[A] book that mankind has been hungering for, a book that isnow and forevera shining beacon of wonder, a titanic tribute to talent unleashed" Stan Lee Discover the essential facts about Marvel Comics' timeless heroes such as Captain America, SpiderMan, and Iron Man, and villains like Thanos, Loki, and Kingpin.Keep up with the everexpanding...
The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Chinatown to Downtown Metropolis. While Dr. Lee is eager to begin his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to the famous superhero Superman!Tommy adjusts quickly to the fast pace of their new neighborhood, befriendin...
The greatest love story ever told is finally available in an affordable softcover omnibus edition! This twobook package contains all 2128 pages of Terry Moore's epic tale featuring Katchoo, Francine, David, and Casey as they face life's biggest challenges by facing them together. All 107 issues of the series are here, including the spinoffs Molly...
A mighty history: Building the House of Ideas From the very first issue of pulp impresario Martin Goodman's Marvel Comics in 1939, the comic book creators of Marvel's Golden Age flipped the traditional Fantasy, script by placing the inhuman and the invincible into the real world. With the likes of the fiery android Human Torch, vengeful sea prince S...
From the author of Fun Home the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and othersFor twentyfive years Bechdel?s pathbreaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in awardwinning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newsp...
Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #1
Not every dragonet wants a destiny ... Clay has grown up under the mountain, chosen along with four other dragonets to fulfill a mysterious prophecy and end the war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. He's not so sure about the prophecy part, but Clay can't imagine not living with the other dragonets; they're his best friends. So when one of the ...

ReIgnition, My War, The Last Goodbye
When downandout alien exterminator Heath Huston stumbles upon an extraterrestrial plot to commit genocide against the human species, he must put down the bottle and resume his role as a peacekeeper...the last Fear Agent!Acclaimed writer Rick Remender (Uncanny XForce, Venom) is joined by superstar collaborators Tony Moore (The Walking Dead, Venom...

An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the MasonDixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north without being caught or killed, she?d be ...

The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume
An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300 page epic from start to finish in one deluxe trade paperback.Three modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pretechnological valley, spending a year there making new friends and outrunning dangerous enemies. After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley B...

No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick_x0096_and escape death itselfSomething has gone horribly wrong with the perfect life that Scott and his wife Big Barda have made for them...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
A 2018 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal Winner! Adolf Hitler?s Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the ...

The Desperate Battle Begins! For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, threewalled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humankind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about to change everything....

Nine Months of Careful Chaos
If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you_x0092_re smart and talented and _x0093_good enough,_x0094_ you can do anything.Except get pregnant.Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she_x0092_d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages,...
The Killing Joke Deluxe (New Edition)
For the first time the Joker's origin is revealed in this tale of insanity and human perseverance. Looking to prove that any man can be pushed past his breaking point and go mad, the Joker attempts to drive Commissioner Gordon insane. After shooting and permanently paralyzing his daughter Barbara (a.k.a. Batgirl), the Joker kidnaps the commissioner...

The Court of Owls (The New 52) (Batman (DC Comics Paperback))
Following his groundbreaking, critically acclaimed run on Detective Comics, writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire) alongside artist Greg Capullo (Spawn) begins a new era of The Dark Knight as with the relaunch of Batman, as a part of DC Comics_x0097_The New 52!After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps thes...

Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears What turns two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners How does the simplehearted care of one middleaged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deceptionAwardwinning cartoonist...

For fans of Raina Telgemeier?s Smile, a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and surviving junior high through the power of roller derby. Twelveyearold Astrid has always done everything with her best friend Nicole. So when Astrid signs up for roller derby camp, she assumes Nicole will too. But Nicole signs up for dance camp with a new frie...

What are the most important days of your lifeMeet Brás de Oliva Domingos. The miracle child of a worldfamous Brazilian writer, Brás spends his days penning other people's obituaries and his nights dreaming of becoming a successful author himself_x0097_writing the end of other people's stories, while his own has barely begun.But on the day that life beg...
The Long Halloween
Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the clock as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victi...
It's ADVENTURE TIME! Join Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, and Princess Bubblegum for allnew adventures through The Land of Ooo.The totally algebraic adventures of Finn and Jake have come to the comic book page! The Lich, a superlame, SUPERSCARY skeleton dude, has returned to the the Land of Ooo, and he_x0092_s bent on total destruction! Luckily, Finn an...
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with onagain, offagain braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there?s still more to deal...
The Black Mirror
A NEW YORK TIMES #1 Bestseller.In "The Black Mirror," a series of brutal murders pushes Batman's detective skills to the limit and forces him to confront one of Gotham City's oldest evils. Helpless and trapped in the deadly Mirror House, Batman must fight for his life against one of Gotham City's oldest and most powerful evils!Then, in a second sto...
_x0093_Hilda is the little girl. And this is her folk tale. And pretty much everything you need to know about how good this is, is there on that absolutely gorgeously delightful cover above. By the end of it, you_x0092_ll have exactly the same smile as Hilda has._x0094__x0097_ Forbidden PlanetHilda sits in her tent listening to the thunder passing overhead when she hears ...
A woman in trouble, friends on the run from cops and mobsters, and a secret no one is prepared to face! Five years ago, Jake was a happy family man, longretired from the life of crime he grew up in, and then the police made him the prime suspect in a horrible crime and ripped his life apart! Now, years later, Jake is less than a shadow of his form...

An Introvert's Story
Sweet, funny, and quietly poignant, Debbie Tung?s comics reveal the ups and downs of coming of age as an introvert.This illustrated gift book of short comics illuminates author Debbie Tung's experience as an introvert in an extrovert?s world. Presented in a loose narrative style that can be read front to back or dipped into at one?s leisure, the bo...
Chabouté's enchanting story of a park bench was first published to critical acclaim in France in 2012. Faber now brings his work to the English-speaking world for the first time.Through Chabouté's elegant graphic style, we watch people pass, stop, meet, return, wait and play out the strange and funny choreography of life. Fans of The Fox and the St...
A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw
An instructional art book in narrative graphic novel form that uses the tale of one aspiring young artist and his reluctant mentor to impart easytofollow lessons on the fundamentals of drawing.With over 10 million views and growing, Mark Crilley's YouTube drawing instruction videos have an enormous worldwide legion of fans and have been featured ...
Beware, villains! Cat Ninja may appear to be nothing more than a silly internet meme. But he is evil's greatest enemy, and the silent master of Kat Fu and carpet scratching! From Epic! Originals, Cat Ninja is a hilarious graphic novel series about a lovable cat with a heroic alterego.Raised from a kitten by a kindly old ninja master, Claude now sp...

The Curious Parts & Pieces of Our Edible World
“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Nature, Fiction, FoodHobbies, Art lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017! Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's. In Tenements, Towers & T...

The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Heavens to Murgatroyd! HannaBarbera_x0092_s very own Snagglepuss is reimagined in a brandnew series, EXIT STAGE LEFT: THE SNAGGLEPUSS CHRONICLES, by author Mark Russell (THE FLINTSTONES)!It_x0092_s 1953. While the United States is locked in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the gay Southern playwright known as Snagglepuss is the toast of Broadway. B...
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon and America itself.Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a fouryearold boy to find his own birth country at war wit...
Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece ma...
Back on the Street
After years of selfimposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 23rd Century surroundings. Combining black...

The Bad Guys, Book 1
In this hilarious new illustrated chapter book series, bad guys are doing good deeds . . . whether you want them to or not!They sound like bad guys, they look like bad guys . . . and they even smell like bad guys. But Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Shark are about to change all of that . . .Mr. Wolf has a daring plan for the Bad Guys' fi...

Agatha Awakens
Girl Genius, the multiple Hugo Award_x0096_winning steampunk webcomic by Phil and Kaja Foglio, now collected in hardcover!The Industrial Revolution has become allout war! Mad Scientists, gifted with the Spark of genius, unleash insane inventions on an unprepared Europe. For centuries, the Heterodyne family of inventors kept the peace, but the last Heter...
From one of the great comic innovators, the longawaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision. Richard McGuire_x0092_s Here is the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.(With fullcolor illustrations throughout.)...
The Complete Collection Volume 1
They were six normal teenagers linked only by their wealthy parents' annual business meeting_x0085_until a chance discovery revealed the shocking truth: their parents are the secret criminal society known as the Pride! For years, the Pride controlled of Los Angeles' criminal activity, ruling the city with an iron fist_x0085_and now, with their true natures exp...
Unicorn of the Sea (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #1)
Narwhal is a happygolucky narwhal. Jelly is a nononsense jellyfish. The two might not have a lot in common, but they do they love waffles, parties and adventures. Join Narwhal and Jelly as they discover the whole wide ocean together....
The City in its Own Words
Take a stroll through the City by the Bay with renowned artist Wendy MacNaughton in this collection of illustrated documentaries. With her beloved city as a backdrop, a sketchbook in hand, and a natural sense of curiosity, MacNaughton spent months getting to know people in their own neighborhoods, drawing them and recording their words. Her street...

Jedi Academy
This incredible, original story captures all of the humor, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, doodles, and newspaper clippings. The setting A galaxy far, far away...Roan's one dream is to leave home and attend Pilot Academy like his older brother, father, and grandfat...
Adaptación a historieta de la obra de Bram Stoker....
Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahía de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls explore their new home, a neighbor lets them in on a secret: T...

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Awkward, and All's Faire in Middle School, this graphic novel follows a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary cardboard into fantastical homemade costumes as they explore conflicts with friends, family, and their own identity."There's room for everyone inside The Cardboard Kingdom, where friendship and im...
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late _x0092_60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10yearold Karen Reyes, filled with Bmovie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the int...
Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale and New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham join forces in this graphic memoir about how hard it is to find your real friends and why it's worth the journey.When best friends are not forever . . .Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since they were little. But one day, Adrienne starts hanging...

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a neverending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan, Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy, and science fiction are wed like never before i...
Following the events of "Something to Fear," Rick and the other survivors accept a new way...but not everyone agrees. Collects The Walking Dead #103108....

Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Book 1
Do you believe in unicorns Phoebe does. She has no choice ... one day she skipped a rock across a pond, and hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this resulted in a lasting friendship between Phoebe and the unicorn, one Marigold Heavenly Nostrils.Come along for the unicorn ride with Phoebe, as she deals with the usual burdens of childhood (cruel ...

Life in the Big City (New Edition)
Welcome to Astro City, a shining city on a hill where super heroes patrol the skies. Each chapter in this collection is a standalone story, highlighting different aspects or characters in the Astro City world...The city_x0092_s leading super hero tries to be everywhere at once, and berates himself for every wasted second as he longs for just a moment of ...

Arkham Asylum 25th Anniversary
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Comic, Comics., Comics.Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his ...

No Normal
Marvel Comics presents the new Ms. Marvel, the groundbreaking heroine that has become an international sensation! Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City _x0097_ until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel Teenager Muslim Inhuman Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! When Kamala ...

Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day at the flea market, Maddy does talk?to tel...

Olive and Willow are happy campers!Or are they Olive is sure she?ll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow ? but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows ? Olive. It?s s?more than Olive can handle! The stress of being Willow's living...
Or is he Both (Immortal Hulk (1))
THE RETURN OF BRUCE BANNER! You know Bruce Banner. He's quiet, calm, never complains. He's a man who believes he can use the darkest elements of his personality to do good in the world. If someone were to shoot him in the head... All he'd do is die. But the horror lives deeper. A horror that refuses to die. When night falls something other than the...

The Deluxe Edition
Awardwinning author Tom King's critically acclaimed Omega Men is now available in deluxe hardcover format for the first time ever!A group of alien freedom fighters pose as terrorists to accomplish their mission, from the mind of exCIA analyst Tom King. The Omega Men are back in an allnew seriesThey've murdered White Lantern Kyle Rayner, and no...
The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic."Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring an ex...

The Search for the Slimy Space Slugs!
Draw your way through the story!Doodle Adventures: The Search for the Slimy Space Slugs! is a lighthearted Fantasy, where the reader first draws him or herself into the story, and then continues by following prompts and adding more illustrations and doodles. Set in space, the book invites the reader to join Carl, a duck and member of a supersecret...
The City has many names... and no name.Built on an ancient mountain pass, the City is forever being invaded by one nation or another, and every new master gives it a new name. But for the natives, their home is the Nameless City, and those who try to name it are forever outsiders. Dreamy, sheltered Kaidu is one such outsider. He's a Dao born and br...
Jason Polan is on a mission to draw every person in New York, from cab drivers to celebrities. He draws people eating at Taco Bell, admiring paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, and sleeping on the subway. With a foreword by Kristen Wiig, Every Person in New York, Volume 1 collects thousands of Polan's energetic drawings in one chunky book. As fu...

New York Times bestselling writer Warren Ellis (TRANSMETROPOLITAN, RED, THE AUTHORITY) returns to DC to curate Jim Lee's WildStorm world, resetting the WildStorm universe with new iterations of Grifter, Voodoo, the Engineer, Jenny Sparks and more! Everyone is looking up. A man has been thrown from the upper floor of a skyscraper. Angela Spica, sic...
Showcasing cuttingedge underwater photography from the world?s leading marine and nature photographers, The Life & Love of the Sea is a breathtaking visual tour of the ocean?s great diversity. Readers will experience land meeting sea with images of dramatic coastlines, barrier reefs, and island chains, as well as the spectacular power of the ocean...

Extraordinary Machine
Eisner Awardnominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De Landro (XFactor) team up to bring you the premiere volume of Bitch Planet, a deliciously vicious riff on womeninprison scifi exploitation.In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patri...

Last God Standing
Ragnarok... the Twilight of the Gods in Norse mythology... the destruction of the Nine Worlds. And now, three hundred years later, the birth of vengeance. Collects issues #16. Walter Simonson returns to comics in a BIG way with an allnew series....

Infinite Kung Fu walks you through familiar corridors in the house of martial mayhem, but still smashes your face through walls of wonder and into rooms where kung fu is afraid to go! The Martial World is ruled by a mysterious emperor whose five armies are each headed by a cruel and highly skilled kung fu master. Lei Kung, a soldier in one of these...

The Brian Epstein Story Expanded Edition
The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and guided The Beatlesfrom their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom. Yet more than merely the story of "The Man Who Made The Beatles," The Fifth Beatle is an uplifting, tragic, and ultimately inspirational human s...
Jen is used to not getting what she wants. So suddenly moving to the country and getting new stepsisters shouldn't be too much of a surprise.Jen did not want to leave the city. She did not want to move to a farm with her mom and her mom's new boyfriend, Walter. She did not want to leave her friends and her dad.Most of all, Jen did not want to get n...
Lunch Lady #1
Serving justice . . . and lunch!Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn?t dishing out the daily special Where does she live Does she have a lot of cats at home Little do they know, Lunch Lady doesn?t just serve sloppy joes?she serves justice! Whatever danger lies ahead, it?s no ...
Cold Dead Fingers, Square One Edition (1)
During the darkest days of the Civil War, wicked cutthroats came into possession of six pistols of otherworldly power. In time the Sixth Gun, the most dangerous of the weapons, vanished. When the gun surfaces in the hands of an innocent girl, dark forces reawaken. Vile men thought long dead set their sights on retrieving the gun and killing the gir...
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